ok i found new options and was wondering if i did better this time and what everyone thought of the hardware Video card --- ATI 100-505519 FireGL V8600 Video Card - 1GB GDDR4, PCI Express 2.0 x16, Dual DVI, OEM chip i am thinking i wanna stay with the i7 even if it is overkill than go with the i5 but with the k it will cost me more money but the new board is less so about the same together (for anyone new i wont be over clocking the processor)---- Intel Core i7-2600K BX80623I72600K Unlocked Processor - Quad Core, 8MB L3 Cache, 1MB L2 Cache, 3.40 GHz (3.80 GHz Max Turbo), Socket H2 (LGA1155), 95W, Fan, Retail Motherboard i found this one i think it will fit my needs only concern is will it be able to handle 2 video cards and there is no ide connections so may have to buy a new hardrive instead of reuse what is in my old pc( i have to check old pc)---- GIGABYTE GA-Z68X-UD3H-B3 Intel Z68 Motherboard - ATX, Socket H2 (LGA 1155), Intel Z68 Chipset, 2133MHz DDR3, SATA 6.0 Gb/s, RAID, 7.1-CH Audio, Gigabit LAN, SuperSpeed USB 3.0, CrossFireX/SLI Ready this is what i found for ram but am i better off going with 8 Gb at 1866 or 16Gb at 1600MHz? ram (this ram seems to be popular in the us and it has a lifetime warantee---- Corsair CMZ8GX3M2A1866C9R Vengeance Desktop Memory Kit - 8GB (2x 4GB), PC3-15000, DDR3-1866MHz, 240-pin DIMM, 9-10-9-24 CAS Latency, 1.5V, XMP Ready power suply----- Corsair HX650W Power Supply - 650-Watts, Modular, ATX, Single 12V Rail, 80 Plus Bronze CASE----- NZXT PHAN-001WT Phantom Full-Tower Case - E-ATX, ATX, MicroATX, 5 x 5.25" Bays, 7 x 3.5"Bays, 200mm LED Fan, White fan --- Corsair CAFA70 A70 Air Series Performance CPU Cooler - 120mm, LGA 775, LGA 1366, LGA 1156, AM2, AM3 i hope i did better this time if u need more information on any of this stuff i am looking at tigerdirect.com i have not shopped around for prices just trying to figure out the parts first. also aside from a hardrive anything else u might think i may need like certiain cables or stuff they wont come with hardware that i think would? thanks again everyone
You've made awful choice again. start by looking at this And I'd use scan for finding parts. Much easier to navigate and generally keenly priced. Roughly how much are you looking to spend and for what purpose?
Wait is this for gaming?! On a FIREGL?!? You'd want a GTX 560 ti, 570 depending on budget. Also it's stupid to get an i7 for gaming. Simply stupid. Nothing more than bragging rights.
Why a pro GPU? get a consumer part (ATI 6xxx and soon to be 7xxx series or Nvidia 5xx series). They use the same chips as the pro lineup but with higher clocks and drivers aimed at gaming. Oh and they cost 1/10th the price of a comparable performing business card. Also, you plan on putting a high end gaming rig together and using an IDE HDD? your pc will be held back massively by the slow, old drive. gaming might not change, but loading times for everything will be painfully slow compared to a modern HDD or SSD. Right now if you dont need much storage space, go for the SSD, if you need lots of space get a new hdd.
Or get both, a 60gb SSD for the operating system and your favorite game/programs and a 1tb HDD for all your other games and data.
